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EP2779824B1
EP2779824B1 EP11782627.1A EP11782627A EP2779824B1 EP 2779824 B1 EP2779824 B1 EP 2779824B1 EP 11782627 A EP11782627 A EP 11782627A EP 2779824 B1 EP2779824 B1 EP 2779824B1
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  • the invention relates to an irrigation device for potted plants.
  • such water transport lines are formed from wool threads or from other household fiber material strands, which may also be surrounded by watertight guide sheaths.
  • More elaborate designs of irrigators typically include a water reservoir with a lid forming a pot tray.
  • the water transport line can be guided by opening the water reservoir out of this and over the pot edge of the plant pot to the plant substrate, such as in the FR 2 410 953 A disclosed.
  • a device in which a pot forms with its lower part a water reservoir, which is covered by a cover plate.
  • the cover also serves as the bottom of a plant volume.
  • a fibrous material absorbent band extends with a central portion over a central elevation of the cover plate and enters into water-releasing contact with a lower portion of a plant substrate the planting volume.
  • the opposite ends of the suction belt are guided through two slots along a spring tongue of the cover plate through this down and hang in the water reservoir.
  • the suction belt and the cover plate are accessible only by removing the plant substrate above the cover plate. Water can be poured through a lateral opening of the pot in the water reservoir.
  • a float with indicator indicates the level in the reservoir.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide an advantageously manageable irrigation device for potted plants with a water acting after the capillary water transport line.
  • the connection of the water transport line with the water storage device for the user is particularly simple and to accomplish while avoiding tedious threading in a circumferentially closed implementation.
  • the water storage device is subdivided into a water reservoir and a cover arrangement covering its upper opening.
  • the lid assembly advantageously also formed a footprint for a plant pot.
  • the water transport line is guided in a conventional manner on the outside of the plant pot along over the pot edge to the plant substrate in the plant pot.
  • the passage for the water transport line through the water storage device is offset radially outwards relative to the center of the footprint against the footprint and arranged in an edge region of the cover assembly.
  • the opening of the bushing then leads to the edge arrangement radially limiting edge.
  • the water transport line is designed flat band-shaped and preferably contains a sliver of a fibrous material, which causes the transport of water by the capillary effect against gravity from located in the water tank first end of the sliver to the higher located second end of the sliver in the planting substrate of a plant pot, and a flat tubular casing surrounding the sliver in the course thereof between the water supply device and the plant substrate and preferably also vapor-tight, which is also present in the longitudinal direction of the water transport line when it is being carried out.
  • the tubular casing With the tubular casing, the handling of the water transport line during insertion into the passage transversely to the longitudinal direction of the water transport line is particularly advantageous and without entanglement and damaging the sliver easy to perform.
  • the passage in the water supply device is elongated, in particular in the circumferential direction, with respect to the radially outer edge of the cover arrangement formed substantially edge-parallel recess.
  • the opening is advantageously arranged at one end of the elongated recess.
  • the recess is bounded radially outwardly by a portion of the outer edge of the lid assembly forming edge web.
  • the opening in a rest position of the edge web is narrower than required for the introduction of the water transport line and the edge web is displaced against a restoring force by widening the opening radially outward.
  • the edge web is firmly connected on one side with the cover assembly and elastically deformable at the junction or in its longitudinal extent.
  • the holding device may also form a vertical support of the footprint of the lid assembly against the bottom of the reservoir in an advantageous embodiment.
  • the holding device may be part of a partition projecting into the interior of the water supply device. This formed subspaces are in mutual exchange of water.
  • the lower edge of such a partition wall or a vertically supporting holding device may advantageously have first sections for direct supporting contact with the bottom of the water reservoir and at least one elevated section for the formation of the preferably gap-shaped passage.
  • Fig. 1 shows in partially sectioned view a potted irrigation device including a plant pot TO with a plant PF, which roots in a plant substrate ES.
  • the plant pot TO is placed on a footprint TS of the cover of a water storage tank.
  • the water storage device has a storage volume VV in a cup-shaped reservoir VB.
  • the container VB is covered by a cover assembly DA.
  • a water transport line WL is guided out of the storage volume VV by a feedthrough HD in the cover arrangement DA and led to a ground spike SP, which is inserted with a tip into the planting substrate ES.
  • the water transport line WL contains in particular a watertight and preferably also vapor-tight envelope HU and within this one water based on the capillary effect against the gravity transporting fiber strand, in the example sketched a sliver, which is extended beyond the envelope HU at both ends and with a first exposed end E1 is in contact with water in the reservoir VB for receiving water and is in contact with a second exposed end E2 at the ground spike with the plant substrate ES for delivering water to the plant substrate.
  • a web ST projecting downwards into the supply volume VV from the footprint TS of the cover arrangement DA ensures that at least part of the exposed first end E1 of the fiber sliver is still in contact with water even at low water level in the storage container.
  • the envelope HU extends in the longitudinal direction of the water transport line WL advantageously up to the ground spike SP and is mechanically fixed there, for example, trapped, wherein the entrapment is such that the envelope HU tensile strength is held on the ground spike SP, but without the water transport is affected by the sliver.
  • the connection of the envelope HU with the spike SP is preferably such that the spike SP with an insertion opening for the envelope HU predetermines a defined orientation of the spike relative to the upper edge of the plant pot TO.
  • Fig. 2 shows a cover assembly DA a water supply device in plan view of the footprint TS.
  • the lid assembly is considered to be substantially circular with a circular line as an enveloping edge line RA and a radially separated from the edge line RA by an edge region RB footprint, which may have a relief structure in itself.
  • a recess HA is provided for the passage HD, through which the band-shaped water transport line leads out of the reservoir volume VV of the water reservoir VB.
  • the recess HA is in the plan view Fig. 2 Run in the circumferential direction elongated and adapted in this form to the cross section of the band-shaped water transport line.
  • the elongated recess HA is open at one of its two opposite ends in the circumferential direction via an opening EO continuing to the edge RA and closed at its end opposite in the circumferential direction.
  • the recess HA is limited over its longitudinal course up to the opening EO radially outward by a narrow edge web RS, which is preferably integrally material homogeneous with the edge region RB, limited.
  • Fig. 2 registered an additional implementation ZD, which can optionally be provided and can accommodate a second water transport line especially when irrigating larger plant pots, so that with the same water transport lines a higher transport capacity of water from the water reservoir to the plant substrate can be achieved.
  • Fig. 3 shows an enlarged section Fig. 2 in a situation where a water transport pipe WL consisting of a water-transporting sliver FB and a sheath HU surrounding it is taken out of or inserted into the recess HA.
  • the edge web RS is elastically deformable in itself and with its free, the opening EO end facing elastically reversible radially outward displaced, so that the opening EO is extended and the implementation of the water transport line WL through the extended opening EO is possible.
  • Fig. 3 (B) shows the clipping Fig. 3 (A) with completely in the recess HA inlaid water transport line WL.
  • the edge bar RS is by the restoring force of the elastic deformation again substantially in the in Fig. 2 returned without starting water transport line starting position and the water transport line is secured against accidental slipping out of the recess HA.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Bewässerungseinrichtung für Topfpflanzen.The invention relates to an irrigation device for potted plants.

Für die Bewässerung von Topfpflanzen sind seit langem Wassertransportleitungen aus faserigem Material bekannt, welche durch die Wirkung des Kapillareffekts Wasser aus einem Vorratsbehälter entgegen der Schwerkraft zu einem höher gelegenen Pflanzsubstrat in einem Pflanzgefäß transportieren und dosiert an das Pflanzsubstrat abgeben.For the irrigation of potted plants long water transport lines of fibrous material are known, which transport by the action of the capillary water from a reservoir against gravity to a higher plant substrate in a planter and metered deliver to the plant substrate.

In einfachster Ausführung sind solche Wassertransportleitungen aus Wollfäden oder aus anderen haushaltsüblichen Fasermaterialsträngen ausgebildet, welche auch durch wasserdichte Führungshüllen umgeben sein können.In the simplest version, such water transport lines are formed from wool threads or from other household fiber material strands, which may also be surrounded by watertight guide sheaths.

Aufwendigere Ausführungen von Bewässerungseinrichtungen weisen typischerweise einen Wasservorratsbehälter mit einem eine Topfstellfläche bildenden Deckel auf. Die Wassertransportleitung kann durch Öffnung des Wasservorratsbehälters aus diesem heraus und über den Topfrand des Pflanztopfes zu dem Pflanzsubstrat geführt sein, wie z.B. in der FR 2 410 953 A offenbart.More elaborate designs of irrigators typically include a water reservoir with a lid forming a pot tray. The water transport line can be guided by opening the water reservoir out of this and over the pot edge of the plant pot to the plant substrate, such as in the FR 2 410 953 A disclosed.

Neben den fadenförmigen Wassertransportleitungen sind auch Ausführungen gebräuchlich, bei welchen das faserige Material ein Faserband bildet.In addition to the thread-like water transport lines and designs are used in which the fibrous material forms a sliver.

In der GB 2 127 264 A ist eine Vorrichtung beschrieben, bei welcher ein Topf mit seinem unteren Teil ein Wasserreservoir bildet, welches durch eine Abdeckplatte abgedeckt ist. Die Abdeckplatte dient zugleich als Boden eines Pflanzvolumens. Ein Saugband aus faserigem Material verläuft mit einem Mittelabschnitt über einer mittigen Erhebung der Abdeckplatte und tritt dort in wasserabgebenden Kontakt mit einem unteren Bereich eines Pflanzsubstrats in dem Pflanzvolumen. Die entgegen gesetzten Enden des Saugbands sind durch zwei Schlitze entlang einer Federzunge der Abdeckplatte durch diese nach unten geführt und hängen in das Wasserreservoir. Das Saugband und die Abdeckplatte sind nur durch Entfernen des Pflanzsubstrats über der Abdeckplatte zugänglich. Wasser kann über eine seitliche Öffnung des Topfes in das Wasserreservoir eingefüllt werden. Ein Schwimmer mit Indikator zeigt den Füllstand im Reservoir an.In the GB 2 127 264 A a device is described in which a pot forms with its lower part a water reservoir, which is covered by a cover plate. The cover also serves as the bottom of a plant volume. A fibrous material absorbent band extends with a central portion over a central elevation of the cover plate and enters into water-releasing contact with a lower portion of a plant substrate the planting volume. The opposite ends of the suction belt are guided through two slots along a spring tongue of the cover plate through this down and hang in the water reservoir. The suction belt and the cover plate are accessible only by removing the plant substrate above the cover plate. Water can be poured through a lateral opening of the pot in the water reservoir. A float with indicator indicates the level in the reservoir.

Bei einer aus der US 5 125 184 bekannten Vorrichtung ragen aus mehreren Öffnungen am unteren Rand eines Pflanztopfs Dochte heraus, welche nach Einsetzen des Pflanztopfes in einem Übertopf in ein Wasserreservoir am Boden des Übertopfes hängen und über den Kapillareffekt Wasser aus dem Wasserreservoir in dem Bodenbereich des Pflanztopfes transportieren.At one of the US 5,125,184 Known device protrude from several openings at the bottom of a plant pot wicks, which hang after insertion of the plant pot in a planter in a water reservoir at the bottom of the planter and transport via the capillary water from the water reservoir in the bottom portion of the plant pot.

Der vorliegenden Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde, eine vorteilhaft handhabbare Bewässerungseinrichtung für Topfpflanzen mit einer nach dem Kapillareffekt wirkenden Wassertransportleitung anzugeben.The present invention has for its object to provide an advantageously manageable irrigation device for potted plants with a water acting after the capillary water transport line.

Die Erfindung ist im unabhängigen Anspruch beschrieben. Die abhängigen Ansprüche enthalten vorteilhafte Ausgestaltungen und Weiterbildungen der Erfindung.The invention is described in the independent claim. The dependent claims contain advantageous refinements and developments of the invention.

Durch die seitliche Öffnung der Durchführung der Wasservorratseinrichtung ist die Verbindung der Wassertransportleitung mit der Wasservorratseinrichtung für den Benutzer besonders einfach und unter Vermeidung eines mühsamen Einfädelns in eine umlaufend geschlossene Durchführung zu bewerkstelligen.Due to the lateral opening of the implementation of the water storage device, the connection of the water transport line with the water storage device for the user is particularly simple and to accomplish while avoiding tedious threading in a circumferentially closed implementation.

Die Wasservorratseinrichtung ist in einem Wasservorratsbehälter und eine dessen obere Öffnung abdeckende Deckelanordnung unterteilt. Die Deckelanordnung bildete vorteilhafterweise auch eine Stellfläche für einen Pflanztopf. Die Wassertransportleitung ist in an sich bekannter Weise an der Außenseite des Pflanztopfs entlang über den Topfrand zu dem Pflanzsubstrat im Pflanztopf geführt.The water storage device is subdivided into a water reservoir and a cover arrangement covering its upper opening. The lid assembly advantageously also formed a footprint for a plant pot. The water transport line is guided in a conventional manner on the outside of the plant pot along over the pot edge to the plant substrate in the plant pot.

Die Durchführung für die Wassertransportleitung durch die Wasservorratseinrichtung ist bezüglich der Mitte der Stellfläche gegen die Stellfläche radial nach außen versetzt und in einem Randbereich der Deckelanordnung angeordnet. Die Öffnung der Durchführung führt dann zum die Deckelanordnung radial begrenzenden Rand.The passage for the water transport line through the water storage device is offset radially outwards relative to the center of the footprint against the footprint and arranged in an edge region of the cover assembly. The opening of the bushing then leads to the edge arrangement radially limiting edge.

Die Wassertransportleitung ist bandförmig flach ausgeführt und enthält vorzugsweise ein Faserband aus einem faserigen Material, welches den Wassertransport durch den Kapillareffekt entgegen der Schwerkraft von den in dem Wasserbehälter befindlichem ersten Ende des Faserbandes zu dem höher gelegenen zweiten Ende des Faserbandes im Pflanzsubstrat eines Pflanztopfes bewirkt, sowie eine das Faserband in dessen Verlauf zwischen Wasservorratseinrichtung und Pflanzsubstrat wasserdicht und vorzugsweise auch dampfdicht umgebende flache schlauchförmige Hülle, welche auch im Längsverlauf der Wassertransportleitung bei der Durchführung vorliegt. Mit der schlauchförmigen Hülle ist die Handhabung der Wassertransportleitung beim Einführen in die Durchführung quer zur Längsrichtung der Wassertransportleitung besonders vorteilhaft und ohne Verhaken und Beschädigen des Faserbandes leicht durchzuführen.The water transport line is designed flat band-shaped and preferably contains a sliver of a fibrous material, which causes the transport of water by the capillary effect against gravity from located in the water tank first end of the sliver to the higher located second end of the sliver in the planting substrate of a plant pot, and a flat tubular casing surrounding the sliver in the course thereof between the water supply device and the plant substrate and preferably also vapor-tight, which is also present in the longitudinal direction of the water transport line when it is being carried out. With the tubular casing, the handling of the water transport line during insertion into the passage transversely to the longitudinal direction of the water transport line is particularly advantageous and without entanglement and damaging the sliver easy to perform.

Die Durchführung in der Wasservorratseinrichtung ist als eine bezüglich des radial außen liegenden Randes der Deckelanordnung in Umfangsrichtung längliche, insbesondere im wesentlichen randparallele Aussparung ausgebildet. Die Öffnung ist vorteilhafteniveise an einem Ende der länglichen Aussparung angeordnet.The passage in the water supply device is elongated, in particular in the circumferential direction, with respect to the radially outer edge of the cover arrangement formed substantially edge-parallel recess. The opening is advantageously arranged at one end of the elongated recess.

Die Aussparung ist radial nach außen durch einen Abschnitt des Außenrands der Deckelanordnung bildenden Randsteg begrenzt. In bevorzugter Ausführung ist die Öffnung in einer Ruhelage des Randstegs enger als für die Einführung der Wassertransportleitung erforderlich und der Randsteg ist entgegen einer Rückstellkraft unter Aufweitung der Öffnung radial nach außen verlagerbar. Vorzugsweise ist der Randsteg einseitig fest mit der Deckelanordnung verbunden und an der Verbindungsstelle oder in seiner Längserstreckung elastisch verformbar.The recess is bounded radially outwardly by a portion of the outer edge of the lid assembly forming edge web. In a preferred embodiment, the opening in a rest position of the edge web is narrower than required for the introduction of the water transport line and the edge web is displaced against a restoring force by widening the opening radially outward. Preferably, the edge web is firmly connected on one side with the cover assembly and elastically deformable at the junction or in its longitudinal extent.

Die Halteeinrichtung kann in vorteilhafter Ausführung zugleich eine Vertikalabstützung der Stellfläche der Deckelanordnung gegen den Boden des Vorratsbehälters bilden. Insbesondere kann die Halteeinrichtung Teil einer in den Innenraum der Wasservorratseinrichtung ragenden Trennwand sein. Dabei gebildete Teilräume stehen in gegenseitigem Wasseraustausch. Die Unterkante einer solchen Trennwand oder einer vertikal abstützenden Halteeinrichtung kann vorteilhafterweise erste Abschnitte zum unmittelbaren abstützenden Kontakt mit dem Boden des Wasservorratsbehälters und wenigstens einem demgegenüber erhöhten Abschnitt für die Bildung der vorzugsweise spaltförmigen Passage aufweisen.The holding device may also form a vertical support of the footprint of the lid assembly against the bottom of the reservoir in an advantageous embodiment. In particular, the holding device may be part of a partition projecting into the interior of the water supply device. This formed subspaces are in mutual exchange of water. The lower edge of such a partition wall or a vertically supporting holding device may advantageously have first sections for direct supporting contact with the bottom of the water reservoir and at least one elevated section for the formation of the preferably gap-shaped passage.

Die Erfindung ist nachfolgend anhand bevorzugter Ausführungsbeispiele unter Bezugnahme auf die Abbildungen noch eingehend veranschaulicht. Dabei zeigt:

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eine Bewässerungseinrichtung mit Pflanztopf,
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eine Draufsicht auf eine Deckelanordnung,
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The invention is illustrated below with reference to preferred embodiments with reference to the figures still in detail. Showing:
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an irrigation device with plant pot,
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a top view of a lid assembly,
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Fig. 1 zeigt in teilweise geschnittener Ansicht eine Topfpflanzen-Bewässerungseinrichtung einschließlich eines Pflanztopfes TO mit einer Pflanze PF, die in einem Pflanzsubstrat ES wurzelt. Der Pflanztopf TO ist auf einer Stellfläche TS der Abdeckung eines Wasservorratsbehälters abgestellt. Die Wasservorratseinrichtung besitzt ein Vorratsvolumen VV in einem topfförmigen Vorratsbehälter VB. Der Behälter VB ist durch eine Deckelanordnung DA überdeckt. Eine Wassertransportleitung WL ist durch eine Durchführung HD in der Deckelanordnung DA aus dem Vorratsvolumen VV hinaus geführt und zu einem Erdspieß SP geleitet, welcher mit einer Spitze in das Pflanzsubstrat ES eingesteckt ist. Die Wassertransportleitung WL enthält insbesondere eine wasserdichte und vorzugsweise auch dampfdichte Hülle HU und innerhalb dieser einen Wasser auf der Basis des Kapillareffekts entgegen der Schwerkraft transportierenden Faserstrang, im skizzierten Beispiel ein Faserband, welches an beiden Enden über die Hülle HU hinaus verlängert ist und mit einem ersten frei liegenden Ende E1 mit Wasser im Vorratsbehälter VB zur Aufnahme von Wasser in Kontakt steht und mit einem zweiten frei liegenden Ende E2 am Erdspieß mit dem Pflanzsubstrat ES zur Abgabe von Wasser an das Pflanzsubstrat in Kontakt steht. Über einen von der Stellfläche TS der Deckelanordnung DA nach unten in das Vorratsvolumen VV ragenden Steg ST ist gewährleistet, dass zumindest ein Teil des frei liegenden ersten Endes E1 des Faserbandes auch bei niedrigem Wasserstand im Vorratsbehälter noch mit Wasser in Kontakt steht. Fig. 1 shows in partially sectioned view a potted irrigation device including a plant pot TO with a plant PF, which roots in a plant substrate ES. The plant pot TO is placed on a footprint TS of the cover of a water storage tank. The water storage device has a storage volume VV in a cup-shaped reservoir VB. The container VB is covered by a cover assembly DA. A water transport line WL is guided out of the storage volume VV by a feedthrough HD in the cover arrangement DA and led to a ground spike SP, which is inserted with a tip into the planting substrate ES. The water transport line WL contains in particular a watertight and preferably also vapor-tight envelope HU and within this one water based on the capillary effect against the gravity transporting fiber strand, in the example sketched a sliver, which is extended beyond the envelope HU at both ends and with a first exposed end E1 is in contact with water in the reservoir VB for receiving water and is in contact with a second exposed end E2 at the ground spike with the plant substrate ES for delivering water to the plant substrate. A web ST projecting downwards into the supply volume VV from the footprint TS of the cover arrangement DA ensures that at least part of the exposed first end E1 of the fiber sliver is still in contact with water even at low water level in the storage container.

Die Hülle HU erstreckt sich in Längsrichtung der Wassertransportleitung WL vorteilhafterweise bis zu dem Erdspieß SP und ist dort mechanisch festgelegt, beispielsweise eingeklemmt, wobei die Einklemmung in der Art ist, dass die Hülle HU zugfest am Erdspieß SP gehalten ist, ohne dass aber der Wassertransport durch das Faserband beeinträchtigt ist. Die Verbindung der Hülle HU mit dem Erdspieß SP ist vorzugsweise so, dass der Erdspieß SP mit einer Einführungsöffnung für die Hülle HU eine definierte Ausrichtung des Erdspießes relativ zum oberen Rand des Pflanztopfes TO vorgibt.The envelope HU extends in the longitudinal direction of the water transport line WL advantageously up to the ground spike SP and is mechanically fixed there, for example, trapped, wherein the entrapment is such that the envelope HU tensile strength is held on the ground spike SP, but without the water transport is affected by the sliver. The connection of the envelope HU with the spike SP is preferably such that the spike SP with an insertion opening for the envelope HU predetermines a defined orientation of the spike relative to the upper edge of the plant pot TO.

Fig. 2 zeigt eine Deckelanordnung DA einer Wasservorratseinrichtung in Draufsicht auf die Stellfläche TS. Die Deckelanordnung sei als im wesentlichen kreisrund angesehen mit einer Kreislinie als einhüllende Randlinie RA und einer durch einen Randbereich RB radial von der Randlinie RA getrennte Stellfläche, welche in sich eine Reliefstruktur aufweisen kann. Fig. 2 shows a cover assembly DA a water supply device in plan view of the footprint TS. The lid assembly is considered to be substantially circular with a circular line as an enveloping edge line RA and a radially separated from the edge line RA by an edge region RB footprint, which may have a relief structure in itself.

Im Randbereich RB ist für die Durchführung HD, durch welche die bandförmige Wassertransportleitung aus dem Vorratsvolumen VV des Wasservorratsbehälters VB heraus führt, eine Aussparung HA vorgesehen. Die Aussparung HA ist in der Draufsicht nach Fig. 2 in Umfangsrichtung langgestreckt ausgeführt und in dieser Form an den Querschnitt der bandförmigen Wassertransportleitung angepaßt.In the edge region RB, a recess HA is provided for the passage HD, through which the band-shaped water transport line leads out of the reservoir volume VV of the water reservoir VB. The recess HA is in the plan view Fig. 2 Run in the circumferential direction elongated and adapted in this form to the cross section of the band-shaped water transport line.

Die langgestreckte Aussparung HA ist an einem ihrer beiden in Umfangsrichtung entgegen gesetzten Enden über eine zum Rand RA fortführende Öffnung EO nach außen offen und an ihrem in Umfangsrichtung entgegen gesetzten Ende geschlossen. Die Aussparung HA ist über ihren Längsverlauf bis zu der Öffnung EO radial nach außen durch einen schmalen Randsteg RS, welcher vorzugsweise einteilig materialhomogen mit dem Randbereich RB verbunden ist, begrenzt.The elongated recess HA is open at one of its two opposite ends in the circumferential direction via an opening EO continuing to the edge RA and closed at its end opposite in the circumferential direction. The recess HA is limited over its longitudinal course up to the opening EO radially outward by a narrow edge web RS, which is preferably integrally material homogeneous with the edge region RB, limited.

Mit unterbrochener Linie ist in Fig. 2 eine zusätzliche Durchführung ZD eingetragen, welche optional vorgesehen sein kann und insbesondere bei der Bewässerung größerer Pflanztöpfe eine zweite Wassertransportleitung aufnehmen kann, so dass mit in sich gleichen Wassertransportleitungen eine höhere Transportleistung an Wasser vom Wasservorratsbehälter zu dem Pflanzsubstrat erreicht werden kann.With broken line is in Fig. 2 registered an additional implementation ZD, which can optionally be provided and can accommodate a second water transport line especially when irrigating larger plant pots, so that with the same water transport lines a higher transport capacity of water from the water reservoir to the plant substrate can be achieved.

Fig. 3 zeigt einen vergrößerten Ausschnitt aus Fig. 2 in einer Situation, in welcher eine Wassertransportleitung WL, welche aus einem Wasser transportierenden Faserband FB und einer dieses wasserdicht umgebenden Hülle HU besteht, aus der Aussparung HA entnommen oder in diese eingesetzt wird. Hierfür ist der Randsteg RS in sich elastisch verformbar und mit seinem freien, der Öffnung EO zuweisenden Ende elastisch reversibel radial nach außen verlagerbar, so dass die Öffnung EO erweitert wird und die Durchführung der Wassertransportleitung WL durch die erweiterte Öffnung EO möglich ist. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged section Fig. 2 in a situation where a water transport pipe WL consisting of a water-transporting sliver FB and a sheath HU surrounding it is taken out of or inserted into the recess HA. For this purpose, the edge web RS is elastically deformable in itself and with its free, the opening EO end facing elastically reversible radially outward displaced, so that the opening EO is extended and the implementation of the water transport line WL through the extended opening EO is possible.

Fig. 3 (B) zeigt den Ausschnitt nach Fig. 3 (A) mit vollständig in der Aussparung HA einliegender Wassertransportleitung WL. Der Randsteg RS ist durch die Rückstellkraft der elastischen Verformung wieder im wesentlichen in die in Fig. 2 ohne Wassertransportleitung eingenommene Ausgangslage zurückgekehrt und die Wassertransportleitung ist gegen versehentliches Ausgleiten aus der Aussparung HA gesichert. Vorteilhafterweise kann die Wassertransportleitung WL in der in Fig. 3 (B) dargestellten, in die Aussparung HA als Durchführung eingesetzter Position in geringem Maße elastisch verformt sein, wodurch sich auch in Längsrichtung der Wassertransportleitung eine Haltekraft innerhalb der Aussparung HA ergibt, welche ohne zusätzlich einwirkende Kraft die Wassertransportleitung in der eingenommenen Lage hält, welche aber eine manuelle Verschiebung der Wassertransportleitung in deren Längsrichtung relativ zur Aufnahme HA erlaubt, wie in Fig. 1 durch den Doppelpfeil an der Wassertransportleitung bei der Durchführung HD angedeutet ist. Fig. 3 (B) shows the clipping Fig. 3 (A) with completely in the recess HA inlaid water transport line WL. The edge bar RS is by the restoring force of the elastic deformation again substantially in the in Fig. 2 returned without starting water transport line starting position and the water transport line is secured against accidental slipping out of the recess HA. Advantageously, the water transport line WL in the in Fig. 3 (B) shown, inserted into the recess HA as a passage implementation to a small extent elastically deformed, resulting in the longitudinal direction of the water transport line a holding force within the recess HA results, which keeps the water transport line in the occupied position without additional acting force, but which a manual shift the water transport pipe in the longitudinal direction allowed relative to the recording HA, as in Fig. 1 indicated by the double arrow on the water transport line when performing HD.

Durch die Einnahme einer im wesentlichen mit der Randlinie RA übereinstimmenden Position des Randstegs RS bei in die Durchführung eingesetzter Wassertransportleitung WL ist die Gefahr, dass das freie Ende des Randstegs RS störend in Erscheinung tritt und eine Verhakung mit einem Gegenstand, beispielsweise einem Kleidungsstück eines Benutzers verursachen kann, gering. Zugleich ist die Funktion und die Handhabung der aufweitbaren Öffnung für den Benutzer leicht erkennbar und intuitiv verständlich.By taking a substantially coincident with the edge line RA position of the edge web RS when inserted into the implementation water transport line WL is the danger that the free end of the edge web RS disturbing appears and cause entanglement with an object, such as a garment of a user can, low. At the same time, the function and handling of the expandable opening is easily recognizable and intuitive to the user.

Die vorstehend und die in den Ansprüchen angegebenen sowie die den Abbildungen entnehmbaren Merkmale sind sowohl einzeln als auch in verschiedener Kombination vorteilhaft realisierbar. Die Erfindung ist nicht auf die beschriebenen Ausführungsbeispiele beschränkt, sondern im Rahmen der nachfolgenden Ansprüche in mancherlei Weise abwandelbar.The features indicated above and in the claims, as well as the features which can be seen in the figures, can be implemented advantageously both individually and in various combinations. The invention is not limited to the embodiments described, but in the following claims in many ways can be modified.

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  1. Watering device for pot plants, having a water-storage device and a water-transporting line (WL), wherein
    - a first end (E1) of the water-transporting line (WL) is located in a water-storage container (VB), and a second end (E2) of the water-transporting line can be brought into contact with a plant substrate (ES) outside the water-storage device,
    - the water-storage device has a feedthrough (HD), through which the water-transporting line (WL) is fed, and
    - the feedthrough (HD) has a lateral opening (EO), through which the water-transporting line (WL) can be introduced into the feedthrough (HD), or removed therefrom, in a direction transverse to its longitudinal extent,
    wherein the water-storage device comprises a water-storage container (VB), which is open in the upward direction, and a lid arrangement (DA), which can be placed in position in a releasable manner on the water-storage container, and the feedthrough (HD) is designed in the form of an aperture (HA) in the lid arrangement (DA),
    characterized
    in that the water-transporting line (WL) is configured to be flat in the form of a band, and the feedthrough (HD) runs longitudinally in the circumferential direction of a periphery (RA) of the lid arrangement (DA),
    wherein the feedthrough (HD, HA) is bounded radially in the outward direction by a circumferentially running peripheral crosspiece (RS),
    and in that the water-transporting line (WL) contains a fibre strand (FB), which acts in accordance with the capillary effect and is enclosed by a water-tight casing (HU) in the region of the feedthrough (HD, HA) and outside the water-storage device,
    wherein, in the position in which it is inserted into the aperture of the feedthrough (HD, HA), the casing (HU) can be displaced in its longitudinal direction relative to the feedthough (HD, HA).
  2. Watering device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the aperture (HA) of the feedthrough (HD) engages around the water-transporting line (WL) over at least 75% of the circumference of the latter.
  3. Watering device according to either of Claims 1 and 2, characterized in that, when the lid arrangement (DA) is removed from the water-storage container (VB), the water-transporting line (WL) remains connected to the lid arrangement (DA).
  4. Watering device according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized by the provision, on the lid arrangement (DA), of a fastening element for fastening the water-transporting line in a tension-resistant manner.
  5. Watering device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the lid arrangement (DA), by way of an upwardly oriented surface, forms a set-down surface (TS) for a plant pot (TO).
  6. Watering device according to one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the feedthrough (HD), at one end of the elongate progression, has an opening (EO) leading to the periphery (RA) of the lid arrangement.
  7. Watering device according to Claim 6, characterized in that the water-transporting line (WL) can be inserted into the feedthrough (HD), or removed therefrom, through the opening (EO) in a direction transverse to its longitudinal extent.
  8. Watering device according to one of Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the peripheral crosspiece (RS) can be displaced away from the feedthrough (HD, HA), the opening (EO) being enlarged in the process, in order for the water-transporting line (WL) to be inserted or removed.
  9. Watering device according to Claim 8, characterized in that the peripheral crosspiece (RS) is displaced counter to a restoring force.
  10. Watering device according to Claim 9, characterized in that the peripheral crosspiece (RS) is inherently elastically deformable.
  11. Watering device according to one of Claims 1 to 10, characterized in that, in a storage position, the water-transporting line can be arranged in its entirety between the lid arrangement (DA) and storage container (VB).
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